Political science

scientific study of politics

Bureaucracy ( ) is a system of organization where laws or regulatory authority are implemented by civil servants (non-elected officials). Historically, a bureaucracy was a government administration managed by departments staffed with non-elected officials. Today, bureaucracy is the administrative system governing any large institution, whether publicly owned or privately owned. The public administration in many jurisdictions is an example of bureaucracy, as is any centralized hierarchical structure of an institution, including corporations, societies, nonprofit organizations, and clubs.

concept in political and social science

aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the adult population

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process and act of speaking or giving a lecture to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain a listening audience

principled guide to action taken by the administrative executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues

type of war, warfare and a theory of military strategy

Elitism is the notion that individuals who form an elite—a select group with desirable qualities such as intellect, wealth, power, fame, physical attractiveness, notability, special skills, experience, lineage—are more likely to be constructive to society and deserve greater influence or authority. The term elitism may be used to describe a situation in which power is concentrated in the hands of a limited number of people. Beliefs that are in opposition to elitism include egalitarianism, anti-intellectualism (against powerful institutions perceived to be controlled by elites), populism, and t

thumb|right|300px|The diverse public is symbolized in this sculpture situated in Montreal, Canada named "". In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere.

cultural dominance in imperialism

field and a method used in political science

political theory that states the far-left and far-right have similarities

percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election

Groups of aligned legislators in the European Parliament

theory of the state

divergence of political attitudes to ideological extremes

governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents and proceedings of the government to allow for effective public oversight

academic discipline

organization; network of researchers

subfield of communication and political science

aspect of history

technique used in public administration to enable civil servants to examine and evaluate the available options to implement the goals of elected officials

The term post-democracy is a term coined by Warwick University political scientist Colin Crouch in 2000 in his book Coping with Post-Democracy. It designates states that operate by democratic systems (elections are held, governments fall, and there is freedom of speech), but whose application is progressively limited. That is, a small elite co-opts democratic institutions to give itself decision-making authority. Crouch further developed the idea in an article called, "Is there a liberalism beyond social democracy?" for the think tank Policy Network and in his subsequent book The Strange Non-D

Biopower (or biopouvoir in French), coined by French social theorist Michel Foucault, refers to various means by which modern nation states control their populations. In Foucault's work, it has been used to refer to practices of public health, regulation of heredity, and risk regulation, among many other regulatory mechanisms often linked less directly with literal physical health. Foucault first used the term in his lecture courses at the Collège de France, and the term first appeared in print in The Will to Knowledge, Foucault's first volume of The History of Sexuality. It is closely related

essay by Friedrich A. von Hayek

development of a centralized government structure

Organization of collective memory by political agents; the political means by which events are remembered and recorded, or discarded

subdisicipline of political science

thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens, the concept originates with Aimé Césaire

Types of governing bodies

conceptualized agency that provides personal protection and military defense services voluntarily through the free market

location, size, or scale of a research target

area of philosophy and political science

dispute regarding the existence, nature, and extent of serfdom in the historical region of Tibet

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collaborative research project

Politicisation (also politicization; see English spelling differences) is a concept in political science and theory used to explain how ideas, entities or collections of facts are given a political tone or character, and are consequently assigned to the ideas and strategies of a particular group or party, thus becoming the subject of contestation. Politicisation has been described as compromising objectivity, and is linked with political polarisation. Conversely, it can have a democratising effect and enhance political choice, and has been shown to improve the responsiveness of supranational i

The study of the relations between language and politics

Entrepreneur development

governance system

Use of Twitter by diplomats for diplomatic outreach and public diplomacy

holistic view of politics, developed by David Easton

history of individuals, entities, and incidents associated with terrorism

Approach of social movements

former German science of administration

academic discipline

stability of the political system

Ethnosymbolism is a school of thought in the study of nationalism that stresses the importance of symbols, myths, values and traditions in the formation and persistence of the modern nation state.

binary measure of democracy and dictatorship

Russian psychosocial military approach

overview of and topical guide to political science

in politics, loyalty to separate interests that potentially conflict

Approach for analyzing public policymaking processes

Neuropolitics is a science which investigates the interplay between the brain and politics. It combines work from a variety of scientific fields which includes neuroscience, political science, psychology, behavioral genetics, primatology, and ethology. Often, neuropolitics research borrow methods from cognitive neuroscience to investigate classic questions from political science such as how people make political decisions, form political / ideological attitudes, evaluate political candidates, and interact in political coalitions. However, another line of research considers the role that evolvi

part of the social sciences which studies how institutions behave and function

Scottish secondary school subject

ad hoc coordination group for international conflict management

social identity according to one's political views, affiliations, or activities